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  Arauco may refer to:
  • Arauco, Chile
    Arauco, Chile

    Arauco is a community in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Biobio Region. The meaning of Arauco means Chalky Water in Mapudungun. The region was a Moluche aillarehue....
     city and municipality in Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
  • Arauco Province
    Arauco Province

    Arauco, a coastal province of southern Chile, bounded N., E. and S. by the provinces of Concepci?n, Chile, Biob?o, Malleco and Caut?n. Area, 2458 sq....
    , Chile
  • Araucanía
    Araucania

    Araucan?a or Araucana was the Spanish language name given to the region of Chile inhabited by the Mapuche peoples known as the Moluche in the 18th century....
  • Araucanía Region
    Araucanía Region

    The IX Araucan?a Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is Temuco. The region is divided into two provinces: Malleco Province in the north and Caut?n in the south....
    , the heartland of what the Spaniards called Arauco
  • Gulf of Arauco in the coast of Chile
  • Arauco War
    Arauco War

    The Arauco War was a long conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people of the region of Araucan?a, of modern Chile. The beginning of the conflict is usually placed at the Battle of Reynog?el?n, which occurred in 1536 between an expedition of Diego de Almagro and a well-organized and numerous group of Mapuche soldiers, near the...
     a war involving Spaniards and mapuche
    Mapuche

    The Mapuche are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanians by the Spaniards....
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  • Arauco Department
    Arauco Department

    Arauco is a department of La Rioja Province, Argentina....
    , Argentina
  • Arauco Pine
    Araucaria araucana

    Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the Pinophyta genus Araucaria. It is native to central Chile and west central Argentina, and is an evergreen tree growing to 40 m tall and 2 m trunk diameter....
     (Araucaria araucana)
  • Celulosa Arauco y Constitución
    Celulosa Arauco y Constitución

    Celulosa Arauco y Constituci?n is a Chilean wood pulp, engineered wood and forestry company controlled by Anacleto Angelini's economic group; Empresas Copec....
     (CELCO) a pulp mill
    Pulp mill

    A pulp mill is a manufacturing facility that converts wood chips or other Fiber crop into a thick fiber board which can be shipped to a paper mill for further processing....
     enterprise in Chile